How to use ssh-rsa public key to encrypt a text?

It's possible to convert your ssh public key to PEM format(that 'openssl rsautl' can read it):

Example:

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub -e -m PKCS8 > id_rsa.pem.pub

Assuming 'myMessage.txt' is your message which should be public-key encrypted.

Then just encrypt your message with openssl rsautl and your converted PEM public-key as you would normally do:

openssl rsautl -encrypt -pubin -inkey id_rsa.pem.pub -ssl -in myMessage.txt -out myEncryptedMessage.txt

The result is your encrypted message in 'myEncryptedMessage.txt'

To test your work to decrypt the with Alice' private key:

openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey ~/.ssh/id_rsa -in myEncryptedMessage.txt -out myDecryptedMessage.txt

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